Starting out

By now you should have the application ready to test if you've followed the instructions given at the start of the chapter. Let's see what it looks like at the moment. Start the application by running the following command in your terminal from the application folder. You'll need to make sure that your virtual environment is activated before you can run this command:

> python manage.py runserver

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000 in your browser and you should see the following basic page:

Starting out

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